Heavy losses: Ukrainian task force "South" reports successes against Russian army
Created: 2022-07-26Updated: 2022-07-26 07:05
By: Helena Gries, Sandra Kathe, Tim Vincent Dicke, Nadja Austel, Vincent Büssow, Nail Akkoyun, Andreas Apetz, Lucas Maier, Sarah Neumeyer
Russia apparently recorded high losses in the Ukraine war.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reports the latest data every day: the news ticker.
Russia continues to attack Ukraine.
Kyiv fights back in the Ukraine war.
Weapons deliveries from the NATO area, the EU and the USA are severely affecting Russia in the Ukraine conflict.
Editor's note:
Some of the information comes from warring factions and cannot be directly verified independently.
Update from Tuesday, July 26, 7 a.m.:
The Ukrainian military destroyed a Russian command post and an ammunition depot in southern Ukraine.
This is reported by the portal
The Kyiv Independent
.
Accordingly, the Ukrainian task force "South" reports the killing of 48 Russian soldiers and the destruction of four tanks, a howitzer, a self-propelled artillery system and six armored and military vehicles.
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Ukraine-News: Heavy losses in the Ukraine war: Allegedly 50 Russian ammunition depots destroyed
+++ 8.50 p.m .:
The hearing of the Russian soldier convicted of killing a Ukrainian civilian was adjourned.
Meanwhile, prosecutors continue to urge Russia to be held accountable for human rights violations and other atrocities.
The 21-year-old soldier pleaded guilty to killing a 62-year-old man in the Sumy region on February 28.
The hearing was postponed to July 29 due to the poor health of his attorney.
+++ 5 p.m .:
According to Defense Minister Oleksiy Resnikov, Ukrainian forces have destroyed 50 Russian ammunition depots with US precision missiles.
"This breaks their supply chains and deprives them of their ability to actively fight and take our forces under heavy artillery fire," Reznikov said on Ukrainian TV.
This proves the growing influence of the US-supplied mobile multiple rocket launchers "Himars" on the fighting.
Resnikov's statements are not independently verifiable.
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+++ 3:00 p.m .:
According to their own statements, the Ukrainian armed forces have destroyed a command and observation post of the Russian National Guard in the Cherson region.
This was stated by Natalia Humeniuk, head of the press center of the Defense Forces of Southern Ukraine.
+++ 11.00 a.m .:
The Ukrainian general staff reports that Ukraine has repelled Russian attacks on Kramatorsk and Bakhmut in the Donetsk region.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported on July 25 that Russian forces are still trying to advance towards the village of Spirne in the direction of Kramatorsk.
+++ 10:00 a.m .:
The British Ministry of Defense sees Russia facing a dilemma.
The aim is either to provide resources for the offensive in eastern Ukraine or to strengthen defense in the west.
The ministry also identified a military vehicle conversion and refurbishment facility with at least 300 damaged vehicles in Russia's Belgorod Oblast.
Ukraine War News: List of Russian Losses in the War
+++ 8:45 am:
These are the preliminary estimates of Russian combat casualties as of July 25, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
Soldiers:
39,700
Aircraft:
222
Helicopters:
188
Tanks:
1730
Armored Fighting Vehicles:
3950
Artillery systems:
876
Air defense systems:
116
Multiple rocket launcher systems:
257
Cars and other vehicles:
2832
Ships:
15
Unmanned combat drones:
719
As of Monday 25 July 2022
The information on Russia's losses in the Ukraine war comes from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
They cannot be independently verified.
The Kremlin itself gives very little information about its own losses.
News about the Ukraine war: Ukrainian military destroys Russian command post
Update from Monday, July 25, 6:45 a.m .:
The Ukrainian military destroyed a Russian command post and ammunition depots in southern Ukraine.
This is reported
by The Kyiv Independent
.
Accordingly, the task force "South" reported that it had killed 66 Russian soldiers and destroyed five tanks, two howitzers, an anti-tank missile system and 12 armored and military vehicles.
Ukraine-News: Russia holds conscientious objectors in 'horrific conditions' in Luhansk
+++ 10:55 p.m .:
In addition to the war losses, the Russian army is also struggling with numerous war-refusing soldiers.
More and more professional soldiers would refuse to continue to take part in the war in Ukraine.
The investigative magazine
The Insider
reports on the catastrophic conditions in which the refusing Russians are being held "in custody".
The magazine relies on the statements of the family members of some soldiers.
According to The Insider
, professional soldiers were promised the option to refuse to take part in the war.
However, when they decided to leave Ukraine and wrote letters of refusal, they were arrested and taken to the town of Brianka in the Luhansk region.
Conscientious objectors would be held there in appalling conditions.
Eyewitnesses spoke of "some pits" and "torture".
The Insider
speaks of a significant number of holdouts.
According to a father, the Russian military leadership explained to him that they had nothing to do with the imprisonment of the "refusers".
The professional soldiers were held by "militant Luhanskers".
War in Ukraine: Ministry of Defense speaks of almost 40,000 Russian soldiers killed
Update from Sunday, July 24, 3:59 p.m .:
Russia continues to suffer heavy losses in Ukraine.
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, about 40,000 Russian forces have died in Ukraine since the start of the war.
However, Western experts assume that there are significantly fewer.
Russia last reported its own losses at the end of March.
At that time, the Ministry of Defense in Moscow gave the number of 1,351 dead.
Ukraine war: Russia is fighting with heavy losses - conversation overheard
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Russia is apparently having a hard time with the losses in the Ukraine war.
In fact, the Russian armed forces seem to have so few troops left that they have to make three battalions into one.
At least that is how a wiretapped conversation that has now been published by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense is to be interpreted.
Accordingly, a Russian soldier explains in it that several battalions are to be withdrawn from the combat area due to high losses and three battalions are to be made into one: "There are simply no more people."
+++ 5.30 p.m .:
Russia repeatedly suffers severe losses in the Ukraine war.
According to Ukrainian sources, 50 Russian soldiers have died in an attack on the headquarters of the sixth regiment in the occupied city of Lysychansk.
This was announced by Serhiy Haidai, the military governor of the Luhansk region, via Facebook.
The information cannot be independently verified.
News about the Ukraine war: Russia's losses are enormous, according to insiders
Update from Saturday, July 23, 2022, 11:35 a.m .:
In the morning report to the Russian ruler Vladimir Putin, the Russian military is said to have briefed his head of state on current casualty figures in the Ukraine war.
This emerges from a post on the Telegram channel “General SVR”, which is said to be operated by a Kremlin insider.
It speaks of 43,018 "irretrievable losses" since the beginning of the war.
According to information in the Telegram message, this included only official military personnel.
Killed members of private security or military companies (PMCs) are not counted.
If these are really the official casualty figures on the Russian side, they even exceed the current estimate of the Ukrainian military, which currently expects over 39,200 Russian dead.
Since the start of Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine, official information about allegedly small Russian losses has seldom leaked out from the Kremlin.
Russia can probably no longer push through its ambitions in Ukraine
Update from Friday, July 22, 6:45 a.m .:
According to the Canadian armed forces, Russia probably no longer has the military capabilities to assert its ambitions in Ukraine.
In a series of tweets on July 21, the Canadian Armed Forces cited significant losses in personnel and equipment as reasons for Russia's dwindling military capabilities.
This is reported by the news portal
Kyiv Independent.
Update from Thursday, July 21, 6:45 a.m .:
The Russian attack on Ukraine has been raging for almost five months.
The US foreign intelligence service assumes that around 15,000 people have died on the side of ruler Vladimir Putin.
The number of wounded Russian soldiers is about three times as high, said CIA director William Burns on Wednesday (July 20) at a panel discussion in the US state of Colorado.
“And the Ukrainians suffered too - probably a little less.
But, you know, significant losses,” the representative of the foreign intelligence service was quoted as saying by the
dpa
.
There is no official information from the Russian side.
The Ukrainian side's estimates are currently lower than those of the US.
The last estimate here was around 38,750 disabled soldiers on the side of Russia.
Update from Wednesday, July 20, 06:19:
Ukrainian soldiers have caused significant casualties on the Russian side, the
Kyiv Independent
reports .
The Donetsk region is affected.
However, official figures from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense are not yet available.
Ukraine-News: Ukrainian military destroys Russian ammunition depots
Update from Tuesday, July 19, 6:45 a.m .:
As the news portal
Kyiv Independent
reports
,
the Ukrainian military has destroyed two Russian ammunition depots in southern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Operational Command "South" reported on July 18 that Ukrainian forces also killed 65 Russian soldiers and destroyed a mobile communications system and 11 armored and military vehicles.
First report from Friday, July 15:
Cherson - The Ukraine war rages on incessantly.
The armed forces of Ukraine repeatedly inflict heavy losses on the aggressors from Russia.
In southern Ukraine, Russia is said to have lost several ammunition depots to weapon systems from the West in recent days, according to the troops behind Volodymyr Zelenskyj.
Ukraine-News: Russia has to take heavy losses in the south
The report by the Operations Command "South" on Thursday (July 14) speaks of heavy losses for the troops from Russia, including six armored vehicles, a "Gvozdika" howitzer and a field ammunition depot.
According to Al-Jazeera
, the Himar missile systems from the USA are said to have caused many losses on the side of Russia
.
The current attacks on depots behind enemy lines may indicate that the Russian occupiers are about to launch a counter-offensive in the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions.
Ukraine War: Information from Russia is rare
It remains to be seen whether Russia's losses will continue to increase.
Ex-General Frederick Ben Hodges recently predicted defeat for Russia.
(lm/nak/tvd/ska/hg/na with dpa/AFP)